Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) are rare and frequently aggressive tumors that may be functional (hormone-secreting) – causing Cushing’s syndrome and/or virilization, or nonfunctional – presenting as an abdominal mass or as an incidental finding. We describe a rare case of stage IV adrenocortical carcinoma which first manifested as treatment resistant Cushing’s syndrome.Case report: In september of 2021, a 24-year-old fe...

Background: Currently, the European Society of Endocrinology guidelines asserted against additional imaging during follow-up (FUP) in patients with non-functioning adrenal masses <4 cm in size with clear benign features on imaging studies. Our analysed literature data suggests that an increase (minimum 1 cm) in an initially benign adrenal mass during follow-up occurs in 3.5–20% of patients with adrenal incidentalomas.Aim: To analyse the change i...